Activities of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2014/2040(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015 - all sections
Amendments (7)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that investment in transport is vital in order to strengthen the role and aim of the EU budget to stimulate growth, competitiveness and employment and to move towards the goals of the "Europe 2020 strategy", as well as to make travelling safer, thus reducing the number of accidents and related casualties, and therefore welcomes the fact that the CEF programme is placed as one of the key programmes of the budget Heading 1a "Competitiveness for growth and jobs".
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Draws attention, nonetheless, to the financial difficulties which some Member States are experiencing as a result of the economic crisis and which are making it extremely difficult for them to submit projects, as evidenced by the recent call for proposals issued in connection with the Trans-European Transport Network programme, and therefore, with a view to ensuring more balanced participation, calls for greater flexibility in the implementation of the CEF programme.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that the EU budget should focus on infrastructure projects that will deliver high European added value, by removing bottlenecks and building/improving trans-border infrastructure, as well as upgrading existing infrastructure, such as rail links, in order to develop the EU's internal market and improve the competitiveness of the EU as a whole; notes that in the context of the current international situation on the EU's Eastern borders, it is of particular importance to connect Member States in the EU transport network with European technical parameters, so they can better integrate into the EU's common market; draws attention, at the same time, to the major interoperability problems still existing between EU railway networks, in particular as a result of gauge differences, and to the urgent need to put an end to them; calls for efforts to be focused on harmonisation, with a view to building a genuinely interoperable European railway area.
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Draws attention to the crucial role played by the agencies whose main responsibility is to ensure the safety of the various modes of transport, and therefore rejects the proposed cuts in the agencies’ operating budgets and does not agree with proposed cuts that could undermine transport safety.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Points out, furthermore, that some of the transport-related agencies are taking on (or will be asked to take on) new tasks and that across-the-board cuts in staff and administrative expenditure which fail to take account of the specific circumstances of each agency would therefore be inappropriate.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Stresses, in connection with the EASA, that more than two-thirds of the agency’s expenditure is covered by the charges and taxes levied on the industry and that no cuts should be made to the number of EASA certification staff, who do not come under the EU budget and have no impact whatsoever on that budget.
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Criticises the fact that, once again, little attention has been paid in the budget to tourism, despite its having been an area of shared competence since the Lisbon Treaty entered into force; calls once again on the Commission to do its utmost to build on the preparatory actions put forward by Parliament and to lay the foundations for a genuine European tourism policy.